Quotes About Perspective

Melchett is a wise man. He knows that when it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done—listen to her. When she had said all that she wants to say, there is a chance that she will listen to you.

You've heard the truth and you can take it or leave it as far as I am concerned.

Recuerde que en esta vida las cosas no son tan bonitas como parecen a primera vista.

Todos nos vemos en el espejo de distintos ángulos, pero estamos todos ante él, y por lo tanto vemos también lo mismo.

If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Loyalty to a memory? I believe the present matters, not the past. The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms; a forced perspective.

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience. ~Hercule Poirot

Is he then an unhappy man?" Poirot said : "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy." The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man...

Had I been looking at the case upside down?

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye.

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?

Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I grew up with here in Cairo in the Sixties. What difference do a hundred years — or a continent — make?

Isn't that her problem? That she lets his thoughts crowd in on hers - crowd out hers...

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios staying the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. 80 would live in substandard housing. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 50 per cent of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. And all 6 would be citizens of the United States. Isabel

Youth is in the heart and age is just a number

breakthroughs occur only when one is able to view things in a completely different, new way.

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)